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The problem showed up when i moved folders with cache to my ntfs drive and made symbolic links to it (don't quite remember exact locations of them /var/cache , /var/tmp I guess also /home/roman/.cache and so on)

When i restarted the system it booted in terminal (didnt start desktop environment) I thought that its becouse my ntfs drive is not mounting at the startup so i mounted it to the same place as it was mounting before used sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/roman/R (and i succeed because i entered to the folder cd /var/cache which i could not enter when it was not mounted)

Than i used startx command thought it going to start but it didnt !

Any suggestions to a noob user ?

Rmano
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Роман Гетьман
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You can't use NTFS for Unix system files and directories. NTFS has very different semantics of owner/permission; an awful lot of system files in /var/ depend on the exact unix semantics. Sadly, moving folders and file from /var destroyed the information of user/group/permissions...

The problem you have now is similar to this: How to recover after all files are deleted from /var folder? ; I suggest you follow the @Rinzwind answer.

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Rmano
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  • Thank you for your aswer ! So there is no way to move cache folders to ntfs drive ? I whant to do this because dont whant that to be stored on my SSD which is drive of the root system !? – Роман Гетьман Nov 19 '14 at 21:37
  • You can't use NTFS for anything that need Unix semantics. Most personal documents, photos, music etc is normally ok. Caches and system temporary file, generally no - could be on case for case base. Just the case insensitiveness of NTFS can be a problem. – Rmano Nov 19 '14 at 22:17
  • You can create a separate ext4 partition on your HDD and move & mount the Linux folders there. – To Do Nov 19 '14 at 22:45
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Is your disk being mounted on startup automatically? make sure the disk mounts itself by editing the entry in /etc/fstab. or try reconfiguring the package using

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

you may have to Install this package if system doesn't find it at all.

Good Luck.

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  • Its not starting automatically ! I found in the internet 2 ways to make it happen: one is to gedit fstab but it needs GUI and other is to type command udisks --mount /dev/sda1 but it says that there is not usdisks installed and gives me command apt-get install udisks when i enter that it states that there is no such command install ! Can you point me to right link how to edit that /etc/fstab from terminal only ? Thank you for the aswer buy the way ! – Роман Гетьман Nov 19 '14 at 19:45
  • Ok so i made it automount now by editing /etc/fstab by nano filemanager! Cheked and it really mounts at the start ! Any new suggestions !? – Роман Гетьман Nov 19 '14 at 21:07